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Google announced a new Google Discover ads format to choose from. There is a new 4:5 portrait aspect ratio format that helps advertisers visually showcase their products and services more prominently with consumers as they scroll and it leads into the lead form extensions. Google wrote on Twitter “Need to inspire new audiences on the […]

Lily Ray ran a poll (I am kicking myself for not seeing it to retweet it but it has over 500 results). The poll asked how would you handle a lot of really spammy links pointing to your clients sites. The response was most would ignore the links but many will disavow them. The poll

Google Maps has added a new social feature in the map software named the “community feed.” It can be found in the explorer tab within the Google Maps app on Android and iOS. It is a way for you to find out what the community is sharing about a specific business with the ability to

Today marks the 17th anniversary of starting this site, the Search Engine Roundtable. I’ve been writing about search for over 40% of my life – which is weird to think about. And I’ve been doing it consistently every workday, several times per day, even through a pandemic, for 17 years. It is hard for me

There may be another Google search ranking algorithm update rolling out again. This one started around Tuesday, December 1, 2020. Google has not confirmed this but there is chatter and the tracking tools are also showing an update. There is chatter at WebmasterWorld where some feel that this is a big one. First posts about

UK lockdown v2 – accelerating digital transformation during reduced national mobility. As England settled into week 2 of a full national lockdown for the second time, the majority of sectors and industries strained under the thought of how they might stay in front-of-mind of their customers. We can help with your SEO and Content strategy

GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues his conversation with Kalicube founder and author Jason Barnard to discuss another SERP feature – Knowledge panels. Together they talk about what they are and the best methods to get your brand featured in one. The knowledge panel collects information from across the web

So here is a photo that Gary Illyes from Google shared of him and a couple of his colleagues from the Google Zurich office having dinner together. You can see Martin Splitt and Aurora Morales with him. I cannot fully make out what was being served for dinner outside of the bowl of olives but

Google Merchant Center seems to be rolling out a new reporting feature that lets you build your own performance report. You should be able to access this in the Google Merchant Center under the “Performance” tab. Brodie Clark spotted this update and posted about it on Twitter. He said he is “seeing new reporting functionality

Ryan Siddle, an SEO, asked John Mueller of Google if Google supports nested XML sitemap index files. The answer is no, Google does not support it. John said on Twitter “no, it’s not supported — sorry.” Here are those tweets: Having the XML Sitemap Index of Sitemap Index URLs would enable new categories to be